Transposition


Transposition

 

What is Transposition?

Whenever you have to change the key of the music you’re playing, whether it’s to fit in with the needs of other instruments, or to make it easier to sing along with, or to simplify the key to suit your own playing abilities - that’s a transposition.




MasterKey, with one quick adjustment, shows you all the notes (or chords) in your ‘old key’ right next to all their equivalents in your ‘new key’. And we’re talking ‘any old key’ to ‘any new key’ here. Not just C to F, but E flat to B flat, A to D - you name it!

If you’re playing marked chords on a song-sheet, you can make the transposition ‘in real time’, glancing between the music and MasterKey at each new chord.
When it comes to more complex music, MasterKey gives you rock-solid, note-perfect transpositions that you can prepare in advance.

Who needs to transpose?

Any instrument that plays more than one note - so we’re eliminating the triangle, for example - plays music in one key or another, and has to handle different keys. Transposition is needed.

Those of you who play ‘transposing instruments’ have a special need, as you already know. Clarinets, horns, trombones - these and other instruments have to have their music written in a different key to non-transposing instruments, so that they all sound the same. Bandmasters, we could say, live to transpose, with several different versions of the same tune needed for their various transposing instruments - and MasterKey makes their job easy and accurate.

Singers, with their different ranges, can either manage the key that a song is written in, or not. If not, the instruments have to change key. Transpose, everyone!


To see a demo of Transposing with MasterKey, click here to go to the Demos section.

 

 



 

 


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